Abstract:Abstract:With the burgeoning development of translator education in China, translation teaching studies is becoming an area of increasing practical and theoretical significance. By resorting to Excel and CiteSpace, and based on the data from the Online Translation Studies Bibliography and SSCI database in Web of Science, this paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of translation teaching studies abroad over the past four decades. It analyzes the amount of annual publications, keyword clustering and cocitation references to provide visualized knowledge domains that show the focuses and trends of translation teaching studies. The paper is concluded with its implications for translation teaching studies in China.
Key words:translation teaching; knowledge domains; research focuses and trends; implications